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From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Any thoughts on "comp.graphics.images"?
Message-ID: <3067@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 23:48:11 GMT
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Reply-To: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
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In article <4489@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
>In article <13998@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> aoki@faerie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes:
>>Perhaps there would be interest in a comp.graphics.images.  No, I'm not
>
>Sounds like a good idea to me.  I vote "yes!"

I don't think there's any question that many net-people are interested in
getting or trading images.  For that reason alone, c.g.i might be a
reasonable group to host *discussions* of images, i.e.

 "I'm implementing Boingle's color edge detection algorithm.  Can anyone
  suggest a good test image for it and give an anonymous ftp location?"

 "I have several hundred images available for ftp. Here's how to get them."

 "Can someone estimate the number of man-hours invested in writing code
  to convert from one image format to another, to the nearest thousand?"

One thing I would AVOID doing on c.g.i is POSTING images.  Even compressed
and uuencoded, images can be quite large.  Our research group has 100MB
of compressed images on-line at present.

How would your upstream newsfeed like to see his spool directory filling
up with articles beginning like this:

>From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu
>Subject: MSU PRIP Lab Image Database: Image 32 of 1038
>Lines: 7076
>Summary: 8-bit compresed uuencoded red portion of an image of a duck.
>Keywords: Loooong, Quack, Daffy, RGB, 24bit

Don't get me wrong. If the interest can be demonstrated (and I think it can;
I'm interested, anyway) the group should be created.  If people start posting
images, though, you'll see USENET sites dropping it faster than you can say
`GIF.'

To confuse the issue, there is a moderated group called `comp.archives'
which sees a fair amount of traffic from sites with anonymous ftp
or UUCP access to lots of stuff, including images. How c.g.i would
dovetail with comp.archives (if at all), I have no idea.
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